Proculther-Net: The path towards the establishment of an interdisciplinary community to protect cultural heritage at risk continues
Representatives from Project Partners and stakeholder institutions gather in Germany to propose objectives and expected results
Today in Mainz (Germany), 30 representatives from all the PROCULTHER-NET Partners and national stakeholder institutions gather to define how to build and maintain the community focused on the protection of cultural heritage at risk within the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network that aims at strengthening the response capacities of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.
During this event, the experts, split in working groups, will propose the community’s objectives and outputs, a possible governance system and structure, including a potential regulatory framework and a sustainable financial system for its integration within the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network.
The purpose is the establishment of a community able to operate within the Union Civil Protection Mechanism as a coordinated system capitalizing on the expertise required to ensure adequate response in emergencies in the field of cultural heritage at risk.
In view of improving the prevention, preparedness, and response capacities within the Mechanism, the outputs of this meeting pathway could also serve as a reference for all thematic communities within the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network and, more generally, within the activities of Civil Protection and disaster risk management agencies at local, national and international level.
This event is the result of a long process that began with the previous project PROCULTHER concluded in 2021 and the past activities carried out within PROCULTHER-NET that in the last two years has reinforced its extensive network of contacts promoting the establishment of an interdisciplinary community focused on the protection of cultural heritage at risk.
Proculther-Net is a project coordinated by the Italian Civil Protection Department and co-funded by DG ECHO- Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations within the Union Civil Protection Mechanism. Consortium partners are the International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the Civil Protection Authorities of France and Türkiye, the German Archaeological Institute – DAI (Germany), the Fondazione Hallgarten - Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca- FCSVM, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Region Government of Castilla y León – JCyL (Spain), the Federal Agency for Technical Relief - THW (Germany), the Suor Orsola Benincasa University - UNISOB (Italy), and the University of Porto - UPORTO (Portugal).